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Emil Cioran quotes: I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
Emil Cioran quotes: Everything that lives makes noise. What an argument for the mineral kingdom! Everything that lives makes noise. What an argument for the mineral kingdom!
Emil Cioran quotes: Extraordinary and null - these two adjectives apply to the sexual act, and, consequently, to everything resulting from it, to life first of all. Extraordinary and null - these two adjectives apply to the sexual act, and, consequently, to everything resulting from it, to life first of all.
Emil Cioran quotes: I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide ... I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide ...
Emil Cioran quotes: And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity? And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?
Emil Cioran quotes: We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Emil Cioran quotes: I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy. I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.
Emil Cioran quotes: I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions. I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.
Emil Cioran quotes: Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in the present, and even in the past. Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in the present, and even in the past.
Emil Cioran quotes: I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy. I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
Emil Cioran quotes: To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing. To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran quotes: Even when they desert hell, men do so only to reconstruct it elsewhere. Even when they desert hell, men do so only to reconstruct it elsewhere.
Emil Cioran quotes: The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emil Cioran quotes: Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
Emil Cioran quotes: A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Emil Cioran quotes: We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Emil Cioran quotes: We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
Emil Cioran quotes: If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action. If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.
Emil Cioran quotes: How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
Emil Cioran quotes: If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emil Cioran quotes: I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks. I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks.
Emil Cioran quotes: Not to have been born, merely musing on that - what freedom, what space! Not to have been born, merely musing on that - what freedom, what space!
Emil Cioran quotes: It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history. It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.
Emil Cioran quotes: To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
Emil Cioran quotes: Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man. Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.
Emil Cioran quotes: I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity. I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity.
Emil Cioran quotes: When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer. When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer.
Emil Cioran quotes: You kill yourself only if, in some respects, you have always been outside of it all. You kill yourself only if, in some respects, you have always been outside of it all.
Emil Cioran quotes: In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emil Cioran quotes: Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life. Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.
Emil Cioran quotes: I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Emil Cioran quotes: The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity ... The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity ...
Emil Cioran quotes: Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities. Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
Emil Cioran quotes: Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
Emil Cioran quotes: Agression is a trait common to men and new gods. Agression is a trait common to men and new gods.
Emil Cioran quotes: Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget. Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.
Emil Cioran quotes: What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself. What do you do from morning to night?"
"I endure myself.
Emil Cioran quotes: We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job ... We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job ...
Emil Cioran quotes: Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay
Emil Cioran quotes: Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emil Cioran quotes: I dream of a world where one could die for a comma. I dream of a world where one could die for a comma.
Emil Cioran quotes: I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony. I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
Emil Cioran quotes: Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile. Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.
Emil Cioran quotes: Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be. Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
Emil Cioran quotes: A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people. A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.
Emil Cioran quotes: It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other. It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
Emil Cioran quotes: The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
Emil Cioran quotes: There is a whole range of melancholy: it begins with a smile and a landscape and ends with the clang of a broken bell in the soul There is a whole range of melancholy: it begins with a smile and a landscape and ends with the clang of a broken bell in the soul
Emil Cioran quotes: I would like to forget everything, to forget myself and to forget the world. I would like to forget everything, to forget myself and to forget the world.
Emil Cioran quotes: Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy! Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Emil Cioran quotes: My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now. My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now.
Emil Cioran quotes: Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Emil Cioran quotes: We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to. We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
Emil Cioran quotes: The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live moreover, the only one. The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live
moreover, the only one.
Emil Cioran quotes: In flawed families, a scion appears who dedicates himself to the truth and who ruins himself in its pursuit. In flawed families, a scion appears who dedicates himself to the truth and who ruins himself in its pursuit.
Emil Cioran quotes: What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears. What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.
Emil Cioran quotes: Death is the solidest thing life has invented so far Death is the solidest thing life has invented so far
Emil Cioran quotes: I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them. I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.
Emil Cioran quotes: The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
Emil Cioran quotes: Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Emil Cioran quotes: We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication. We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.
Emil Cioran quotes: The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness. The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.
Emil Cioran quotes: One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living. One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
Emil Cioran quotes: I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece. I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
Emil Cioran quotes: I would like to be free, totaly free ... free like an aborted child. I would like to be free, totaly free ... free like an aborted child.
Emil Cioran quotes: To be objective is to treat others as you treat an object, a corpse - to behave with them like an undertaker. To be objective is to treat others as you treat an object, a corpse - to behave with them like an undertaker.
Emil Cioran quotes: Without the idea of suicide I would have surely killed myself. Without the idea of suicide I would have surely killed myself.
Emil Cioran quotes: What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs? What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?
Emil Cioran quotes: Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emil Cioran quotes: The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
Emil Cioran quotes: There was a time when time did not yet exist. ... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time. There was a time when time did not yet exist. ... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
Emil Cioran quotes: No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emil Cioran quotes: I don't know how to make peace with things, were each moment to tear itself away from time to give me a kiss. I don't know how to make peace with things, were each moment to tear itself away from time to give me a kiss.
Emil Cioran quotes: Bluntly: my rebellion is a faith to which I subscribe without believing in it. Bluntly: my rebellion is a faith to which I subscribe without believing in it.
Emil Cioran quotes: Unmaking, decreating, is the only task man may take upon himself, if he aspires, as everything suggests, to distinguish himself from the Creator. Unmaking, decreating, is the only task man may take upon himself, if he aspires, as everything suggests, to distinguish himself from the Creator.
Emil Cioran quotes: We are all deep in a hell, each of which is a miracle. We are all deep in a hell, each of which is a miracle.
Emil Cioran quotes: Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen. Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.
Emil Cioran quotes: Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.
Emil Cioran quotes: Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend. Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.
Emil Cioran quotes: The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief. The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
Emil Cioran quotes: For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse. For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.
Emil Cioran quotes: I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Emil Cioran quotes: There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such. There are no solutions, only cowardice masquerading as such.
Emil Cioran quotes: To accomplish nothing and die of the strain To accomplish nothing and die of the strain
Emil Cioran quotes: Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
Emil Cioran quotes: To the chosen people God ensured eternity through hatred. To the chosen people God ensured eternity through hatred.
Emil Cioran quotes: There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
Emil Cioran quotes: Nothing more to pursue, except the pursuit of nothing. Nothing more to pursue, except the pursuit of nothing.
Emil Cioran quotes: Shyness, inexhaustible source of misfortunes in practical life, is the direct cause, indeed unique, each inner wealth. Shyness, inexhaustible source of misfortunes in practical life, is the direct cause, indeed unique, each inner wealth.
Emil Cioran quotes: To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known. To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.
Emil Cioran quotes: The lot of the man who has rebelled too much is to have no energy left except for disappointment. The lot of the man who has rebelled too much is to have no energy left except for disappointment.
Emil Cioran quotes: The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary. The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Emil Cioran quotes: A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.
Emil Cioran quotes: One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.
Emil Cioran quotes: Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure. Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.
Emil Cioran quotes: A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man. A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.
Emil Cioran quotes: Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Emil Cioran quotes: Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy. Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
Emil Cioran quotes: By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Emil Cioran quotes: In all the edifices of thought, I have found no category on which to rest my head. Whereas Chaos - there's a pillow! In all the edifices of thought, I have found no category on which to rest my head. Whereas Chaos - there's a pillow!

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